Michael and his colleagues sometimes talk about their Thanksgiving plans the day before the holiday. Some of them would move to their hometowns. Some were to spend the holidays by the lake, while some were to celebrate in luxurious hotels with their partners.
Meanwhile, Michael was never the type to celebrate the holidays, and that was because he didn’t have a family of his own, nor did he have a girlfriend to spend time with.
That particular Thanksgiving, he was supposed to celebrate with his other single friend. However, at the last moment, he shared that he had met a girl, and they decided to spend the holidays together.
The next Thanksgiving day, Michael looked at everything he had bought to cook dinner and realized that it was too much for him to eat alone. Then, he would make a plan to prepare a festive dinner and invite nearby homeless shelter that he would always pass when going home from work.
Michael kept himself busy the entire afternoon by cooking some of his favorite Thanksgiving meals. “I should have thought of this years ago!” he told himself as he packed all the food into foil containers to take to the shelter.
After cooking, he walked to the shelter, where he invited everyone around the table to have a hot meal.
“Wow!” one of the boys from the shelter exclaimed. “I’ve never tasted these types of food before! It’s so delicious!” he said.
“Don’t worry, I’ll keep bringing you meals during holidays,” Michael assured them. “Go ahead and eat,” he told those who gathered.
Michael decided to put some turkey on a plate alongside other viands and walked up to the boy to cheer him up. “Have a meal, young man,” he said, handing the plate.
The boy looked up at him then cried. He reluctantly took the plate and said thank you. “My mom used to cook this food for me, but now she’s too busy to do so,” he revealed.
“Where is your mom?” Michael asked him.
“She works all day, trying to save money so we can buy a decent home. She picks me up late at night and returns me here in the morning,” the boy quietly said. As soon as he said that, Michael recognized himself in the child.
He waited for the boy’s mom to return to the shelter, and he offered her a high-paying job that caused her to work fewer hours.
“Would you really do that for me?” the woman asked him once she was offered the job of being Michael’s assistant.
“Why, yes. I need a hardworking secretary,” Michael shared. “Your son Damon told me that you work all day. That alone is proof of how hardworking you are.”
Michael’s mom Lindy couldn’t help but cry. She thanked Michael profusely and began working for him after the Thanksgiving holiday.
A year later, Michael is sitting at his table at home with Damon and Lindy. He no longer had to spend the holidays alone, nor did he ever have to eat a meal alone ever again, as he and Lindy fell in love and got married.
